Full-service printing and promotional advertising company, which offers print management and distribution services, based in Fairfield, NJ.

For two decades, Prospect Printing has been providing printing and procurement solutions to businesses of all sizes. Whether your business requires printed documents, promotional items, screen printed and embroidered apparel, or item procurement, we can ensure that you receive the highest quality merchandise at the right price.Prospect Printing is owned and managed by Mike Marra, whose decades of printing and procurement expertise ensure you the best working experience. Mike is your one contact throughout your project, and will make the entire process as easy as can be.You will not only receive the best-quality materials, but it will be delivered with a level of customer service that you will highly appreciate.

Provide strategic leadership for Maintenance, Supply & Support Services teams. P&L responsibility of $42 million and project expense of $2 million. • Sourced over $5 million of PPE items along with managing end to end logistics to stores in North America since March 2020.• Planned and implemented the non-merchandise supply strategy for the Gymboree Shop in Shop rollout in over 200 locations in February 2020.• Drove over $8 million of cost reduction initiatives over the past 3 years that contributed to 26.8% of the company’s overall cost savings plans. • Coached and mentored the team in developing a 3rd party maintenance program that reduced the number of vendors by 90% and yielded an annual save of $500,000 in fees by reducing monthly cost of service from $56.25 to $15 per location.• Spearheaded policy changes with vendors and internal business partners that unlocked $1.62 million of costs.• Optimized the company’s car reimbursement program that yielded a 10% reduction in annual car expense.• Created and lead the LED initiative that converted 500+ locations to LED lighting systems, savings from the reduced electricity consumption has yielded $1.5M in energy savings. • Leading 3 direct reports managing daily operations in store and corporate catalog maintenance, procurement activities, facility maintenance, invoice processing, budget management and field support.

Support daily operations and provide long term planning for the NMSS and Store Supplies teams, with responsibility for $16 million in expense.• Led strategic initiatives to improve process efficiencies and reduce waste saving $2.8 million in store supply spend.• Led quarterly hindsight meetings, generating savings of over $75,000 by implementing new freight and production processes.• Developed standard reoccurring vendor meetings with cross functional internal business partners to foster support and ideas for current and future projects.• Led 4 direct reports managing daily operations in store and corporate catalog maintenance, procurement activities, PO creation, invoice processing, budget management and field support.

Led daily Store Supply operations for all stores and field management. Managed office supplies and business forms for the North American based corporate offices and distribution centers.• Implemented and led strategic sourcing activities, supported new store initiatives, on going store replenishment and fulfillment for stores and corporate supply programs.• Provided monthly financial updates along with forecasts to C Level executives and worked with key business partners to ensure budgets are on target.• Reduced store supplies budget by $13.8 million by value engineering top spend items, eliminating redundancies, and process improvement.• Reduced supply inventory, held by a third party distribution vendor, 34% by working with cross functional business partners to eliminate slow moving and discontinued product.• Led initiatives that reduced the corporate supply program annual spend 35% by utilizing a web based service with budget controls and reducing cost by 13% in the top 80% of items used.

Provided strategic leadership in multiple area of the construction department with annual spend of $43 million. Reporting directly to the VP of Construction• Led 3 direct reports in the Facilities/Construction Team Invoicing Group daily to ensure invoices were processed timely and tenant allowance packages were expedited.• Established the daily activities for 2 direct reports in the Construction Expediting team which included the competitive bid process, permitting, supply logistics, and purchase orders.• Refined processes of the Store Facilities group by establishing reporting tools that were readily available to the field team, competitively bidding regional areas, and providing 24/7 redundant coverage resulting in an annual save of $275,000.

Corporate manager for housekeeping, pest, rubbish, snow removal, and landscaping services for 169 locations with an annual budget of $36 million. Reporting directly to the VP of Facilities.• Utilized on-line reverse auction program (Ariba) to save $1.48 million in housekeeping and pest contracts.• Implemented plastic recycling program that provided $243,500 in income and a cost avoidance charge of $206,500 annually.

Led four different locations that generated $16.2 to $61.5 million in annual sales.• Direct and indirect supervision ranging from 80 to 340 associates.• Directly responsible for EBIT and expense ledgers.• Created and managed district wide maintenance program focusing on correcting brand issues in a timely manner.

Delivered $12.7 million in annual sales in the home store and women’s shoe areas.• Led early morning stock preparation, presentation, signing, and shrink reduction• Created and implemented program to reduce shrink by 30% ($150,000).• Direct supervision of 18 associates

Delivered $7.2 million in annual sales in furniture, notions, and luggage at the flagship location• Created and implemented programs to increase sales volume by 7% and warranty sales by 11%.• Direct/indirect supervision of 22 associates.

Daily management of $11.2 million in annual sales volume in the hard goods and HBA departments.• Member of corporate resource team traveling to low producing stores to set to standard.• Led programs that increased annual volume $800,000 to $11.2 million.• Direct supervision of 3 managers and indirectly 35 associates.